I have created a backup of a main (C:) volume of my old (Windows 7) computer and I am able to mount it as a read-only volume on my new (Windows 8.1) computer.
When I try accessing a user folder under ...

I've got to backup data (around 100GB) on a linux system on a daily basis.
I need daily incremental and regular full backups on an 2TB USB drive that is NTFS formatted (no way to change that). If I ...

I'm trying to backup my SVN respository with svnadmin dump command. So I must give it the path of my repository which I don't know how to find it. I'm using svn over http.
How can I find this?
FYI: ...

I have backed up everything with the Windows Server Backup program, but will this be enough? My company is going to completely wipe the computer that has the server, but in case they change their mind ...

I have about 70GB of data (compressed) backed up for my (small business) client. I am using the Azure backup agent on Server 2012 Essentials, with a weekly backup configured to start at 8pm Friday, ...

I plan to move from linux o/s a directory which is mounted on SAN(offboard) to external storage for backup. The dir size is 14TB.
I do have experience moving files in/out using rsync but never done ...

I have a set of maintenance plans in place that perform a full backup weekly, and once complete, delete any .bak's that are a week old. This is important, because the DBs are very large and disk space ...

I'm using commvault at the moment to manage backups, but i need to creata a report of some kind that can show me the days of the week , and what server is backing up at that moment.
A bit like this:
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once in a while after a reboot I found fsck would fail on OS disk and booting becoming impossible on many of my servers. and then I had to reinstall OS and do data migration from the failed OS disk.
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When cancelling a backup job in Bareos/Bacula the used media are still shown as "Full". Is there a way to recycle them? Neither pruning nor purging made them available again because Bareos claims that ...

I have a script, backup.sh, that creates a backup of a MySQL database and then SCPs it to a remote server. This works great, and I can run this once per day using crontab with no problems.
However, ...

I wanna set exchange rules for my incomming backup mails.
After receiving one message with "Backup Exec Alert: Job Success (Server: "SERVERNAME") (Job: "JOBNAME") " in the subject a script should be ...

We recently switched to running our companies warehouse management system server on a linux server. Currently, to create a physical backup that can be stored offsite we are using a DAT72 tape drive to ...

I'm trying to create Backup Schedule from my local drive on a network share but Windows Server 2012 won't let me. I get the error "The parameters are incorrect". When I try the "Backup Once" with all ...

We're reconfiguring our on-site backups (using Veeam if it makes any difference) and I have a decision to make.
I can either purchase an entire new disk array and use that, or I can purchase a JBOD ...

Every system admin knows that rsync is the way to go if you need to do backups of large files, e. g. a database file: since it uses delta compression, it only overwrites blocks that have been modified ...

Having recently lost one drive in a RAID1 (mirrored) setup with a "hot spare" on a HP ProLiant ML350 G6 server, we're about to have it replaced with a new one. The disks are hot swappable so for that ...

I'm running a simple bash script that uses rsync to do an incremental backup of my web server every hour. What I'm looking for is an efficient algorithm to delete the proper backups so that in the end ...

I have been using Microsoft Azure from cloud backup of data on Windows Server 2012 Essentials. We'd now like to add more items to the backup. When using wbadmin to add items to the backup I've been ...

I have a DPM 2012 server which has a virtual server stuck 'Backing up' and cannot be started. As the virtual server lives on a host with a number of other virtual servers the only way we have fixed ...